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Cutler, California

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Orosi-Cutler census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93615. The Survey maps it on the Orange Cove South quadrangle. 4,480 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 361 feet above sea level.

Cutler within Tulare County

Then and now

1922 to 1982

The same ground, surveyed 60 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Cutler, surveyed 1982
Topographic sheet of Cutler, surveyed 1922

Population over time

2 figures

Cutler fell from 5,000 to 4,480 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
20105,000
20204,480-520 (-10%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

13 surveys from 22 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

487 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 487 fires within 5 miles of Cutler between 1992 and 2018, burning about 2,190 acres in total. None started naturally. 250 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Arson/incendiarism250
Missing data/not specified/undetermined110
Equipment and vehicle use62
Misuse of fire by a minor29
Debris and open burning25
Smoking6
Recreation and ceremony4
Firearms and explosives use1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresTulare UnitSULTANA
9 September 2003Arson/incendiarism2.0 acresTulare UnitMASSIE
9 September 2003Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresTulare UnitALTA#5
9 September 1998Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresTulare UnitHUERTA
8 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreTulare UnitCHURCH
8 September 1993Arson/incendiarism1.0 acresTulare UnitEAST
8 September 1993Arson/incendiarism8.0 acresTulare UnitPINKERTON
7 September 2005Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresTulare UnitOLYMPIC

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Tulare County

Mines and quarries near this place

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Cutler: 3 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Magnesite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite, Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
BezzaridesUraniumProspect
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
DickeyGranitePast Producer
Dinuba Magnesite Co.MagnesitePast Producer
Ledbetter Borrow PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Tulare County

Storms near this place

4 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cutler in 4 storm reports between 2003 and 2023: 2 flood, 1 funnel cloud, 1 heavy rain. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 2006FloodCutler$100,000no account filed
February 2023FloodCutler-California Highway Patrol reported roadway flooding at the intersection of Ave 400 and Rd. 140.
February 2003Funnel CloudCutler-no account filed
March 2003Heavy RainCutler-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Tulare County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Wyeth1.1 miles22
Orosi1.5 miles22
East Orosi2.2 miles22
Calgro2.3 miles19
Wimp2.8 miles27
Yettem2.9 miles19
Sultana3.2 miles22
Monson3.4 miles19

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on CutlerAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q2055988The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1658363. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.